RE: troubles with document()

> The actual error message is saying that the file does not 
> have a single top level "root" element.
> so either it's empty or has more than one element, or has 
> text at the top level or...
> 

Very often this particular error message means that the file starts with a
byte order mark and you're trying to parse it with Crimson (the default
parser in JDK 1.4) which doesn't like byte order marks in UTF-8 files.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/